Woven willow chair



Mal". 6, 1923. v M. LEVINE.

wQvEN WILLOW CHAIR.

2 SHEET --SHEET s- FLED SEPT. 3, 192\.

PatentedfMar. 6, 1923i a.; a .t

Application med septmberc, 1921.

To all whom it may con-cem.

Be it known that I, Mounts Ln'vrNn, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Weehawken, in the county of of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Woven lVillow Chairs, of which the following is aspecification.

y improvements relate particularly ,to the construction of chairs consisting mainly of woven -willow work combined with suitable supporting frame well known in the art, and my object mainly 'is to reinforce the seat' and transmit the strain ofuse thereof directly to the legs and frame work of the chair, in such manner as to prevent sagging of the seat, and inci dentally torender the whole structure more "igid and durable, all as hereinafter more rully set forth.

In 'the accompanying drawings: Fig l, is a top View of the seat and lower portion of` a woven willow chair embodying the essential features ,of my invention, the back of the chair being omitted;

Fig. 2, is a central vertical section pla-ne of line 2'4-2Fig. 1,'

lig. 3, isa view of the under side of 'the partsshown in Fig. l;

Fig. 4', is a perspective view of the skeleton seat bottom reinforcement frame g' AFig. 5, is a detailview, in elevation, illustrating the character of the leg and seat brace joints; l

ig. 6, is a sectional detail taken aipon plane of linek-, Fig. 5;

4ig. 7, is plane of line 7-7,

upon

ig. 3, illustrating the character of the joint between skeleton seat bottom' reinforcement frame and the braces. represents the seat weave,l and s, the skirt weave, which, with the U-sha-ped seat frame s, and the dowel legs d, d, are of usual construction, 'the willow weave for this reason being indicated only in part for convenience and clearness of illustration of the novel features, whiclrare the skeleton seat-bottom reinforcement frame B, and the braces b, b, used in conjunot on therewith.

The'skeleton seat bottom `frame B, consists preferably (although nit necessarily) of the side members Z1', Zi", an parallel cross members b2, b2, b2. It ma be attached rigidly to the under side o the seat, al-

though 'this is not absolutely essential, since it is supported by the braces ZJ. L, its main functlon bemg to reinforce and sustain the udson and State work in a; mannera sectional detail taken upon Serial No. 498,225.

seat weave, of use, butl a so to transmit the strain to the legs d, (z2-at the same time lactin Y as a binder and reinforcement to the said legs d, d, themselves by tying and coupling them together centrally.

1e upper ends of the braces b, b, are c-ountersunk in sockets formed for the purpose in the under side of the reinforcement frame Band are also latter 'by nails or equivalent means.; these sockets extend in the direction of the length of 'the braces, as seen in Figure 7, so that the latterl may be simply inserted endwise therein and easily adjustable therein, as occasion may require, their lower ends rigidly secured to the legs d, d, by 'nails or equivalent means, and the willow strands of the skirt\wea.ve are entwined around these 1ower`\ joints,'as indicated in the drawings, particularly in Figs.

nd not only distribute the strain A rigidly secured to the and said braces have- 5 and 6 thereof. Preferably two braces Z),

are provided for each leg of the chair, al though I do not limit` myself in this respect.

to be unde1stod"that my skeleton seatbottom reinforcement frame is supplemental to and independent ofthe seat. frame proper. Thus reinforced and sustained, the seat Gro. WM. Murr, LILLIA Murr CARTER. 

